STUDY PROTOCOL Development and prelimi

In contrast with other major chronic conditions such as intervention for survivors of head and neck cancer (HNC) called the rehabilitation consultation (RC). The RC pro-Implementation Science McEwen et al. Implementation Science (2015) 10:6 DOI 10.1186/s13012-014-0191-zfollow-up procedures and will be administered as soon as1V7, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleheart disease and stroke, cancer care does not routinely in-tegrate evidence-based rehabilitation services within the standard continuum. This protocol describes a structured process for the development, implementation and pre-liminary evaluation of a novel, integrated rehabilitation gram goals are to increase knowledge about rehabilitation needs and resources to meet those needs, to establish indi-vidualized rehabilitation goals for HNC survivors and per-sonalized action plans to meet those goals and to provide support to HNC survivors for the implementation and evaluation of action plans. The goals will be personally im-portant to the individual survivor, and the action plans will be achievable, using resources they can access close to home rather than at the cancer centre, when possible. Additionally, the RC will be integrated into routine HN